Chapter 91 Here I Am

• Seeing him there made my hands tremble, my pulse race, and finally, once again, the reality of past and present came crashing down on my door.
• "Don't do this, Leia. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I think it's impossible, believe me, it must be a lie," he insisted. "Look at us, everyone, absolutely everyone out there is trying to tear us apart. All looking for a weakness to break us, to finish us. Are you going to let them win?" she asked anxiously. "I love you, I will love you for the rest of my life. The rest doesn't matter, they don't matter," he assured me.
• I sighed and tried to calm myself, watching his face pitifully until he came up beside me and dropped his forehead on mine. "I'm scared," I confessed. "I'm afraid that this is another sign of life and fate screaming at me that everything we are, everything we're trying to be.... is just not part of what's supposed to happen," I assured her.